§ MR. O'SHEE (Waterford, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that Mr. Gerald Bellhouse, Inspector of Factories and Workshops, left Dublin on the 23rd ultimo to attend at Lismore Petty Sessions on the 26th ultimo; and will he state whether Mr. Bellhouse was engaged on the duties of his office from the 23rd to the 26th ultimo; and if so, what expenses this Inspector claimed, or was entitled to claim.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Ritchie.) Mr. Bellhouse left Dublin, not on the 23rd, but on the 16th of July, on a tour of inspection. On the days referred to in the Question he was fully engaged on his official work of inspection and (on the 26th) on a prosecution. He has claimed, and will be allowed, his travelling and hotel expenses in the usual way.